Paramedics and the first-responding officers scoured the complex to find the woman, who was eventually discovered in her apartment with a gunshot wound to her leg.

Medics rushed the woman to an area hospital as officers began to investigate.

Officers later told reporters that the woman was standing in the courtyard with a man when they saw a masked robber pointing a weapon, possibly an assault rifle, at them. The man and woman went back into an apartment, but the alleged robber fired several rounds at the door, causing one to break through and hit the woman in the leg, Metro Video reported.

Eva Celedon and Angel Guzman were outside their apartment home grilling dinner when the shot rang out.

"We were here and it was all quiet," Celedon said. "Then boom. We walked over there, and we didn't see anything. There was nothing there."

It wasn't until the medics pushed a stretcher into the apartment courtyard that they learned their neighbor had been shot.

Guzman said their complex is known to have gunfire erupt, mostly from young kids shooting bullets into the air.

Jay R. Jordan is the Houston Chronicle’s breaking news reporter for Chron.com. He was raised in Montgomery, Texas, and attended Sam Houston State University in Huntsville. There, he led the student newspaper that helped the university win the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association’s coveted director’s trophy two years in a row. From Sam Houston State University, he interned at Community Impact Newspaper before working as breaking news reporter for The Courier of Montgomery County. He has worked in the Houston Chronicle newsroom since January 2018.